Just because you stand for something doesn’t mean you have to stand up all day.

Which is why, outside polls in Fall River on Tuesday, people holding signs for their candidate of choice often resorted to a lawn chair to keep from spending the whole day on their feet.

Out in front of Calvary Temple, a sign holder for candidate David Dennis wore a transparent plastic poncho over a bright yellow shirt with “Dennis” on the back in thick, black letters.

A signholder for Republican Dr. David Steinhof used an umbrella to hold off the light spatters of rain that came out of Tuesday’s gray sky.

There was far less activity inside the polling place, where, as of 11:17 a.m. Tuesday, exactly 210 voters had made their decision.

A white-haired gentleman getting into a gray Cadillac said he didn’t want his name revealed because of his strong support for one of the candidates, he said he didn’t like the low turnout, even though he understood he’d come at an unpopular time.

“It’s not when people come out,” he said. “People are at work.

“But this is terrible,” he said.

The turnout proved to be just 11 percent in Freetown with 207 of the precinct’s 1,814 voters casting ballots. In Fall River 19.5 percent of voters made it to the polls.

A light rain fell on Ray Street as voting continued at the Tansey School, where the words on a sign out front were “Have a great summer.”

Signholders were in abundance here, too, a couple of Dennis supporters standing in the crosswalk, a few feet from the curb.

Inside, at noon, 296 voters had already come by the Tansey School to cast their votes. By around 2:30 p.m. poll workers reported approximately 450 cast ballots at the school.

Poll Warden Debbie Raposo, on duty here for more than 10 years, said it was indeed a slow day.

“Yes,” she said. “Primaries are always like that."

At 2:45 p.m. only 98 people had cast ballots at One Government Center.